Grade schoolers compete

Wednesday

Dec 12, 2012 at 12:34 AMDec 12, 2012 at 12:36 AM

A look at grade school hoops from Tuesday

Saints win two, lose twoNORMAL — St. Mary’s broke even with host Epiphany in grade school boys basketball Tuesday.The fifth grade Saints needed overtime to eke out a 28-27 victory. SMS outscored Epiphany 3-2 in OT after playing to a 25-25 tie in regulation.Carter Dawson had 21 points for St. Mary’s (8-0).The sixth grade Saints topped Epiphany 40-27. Joseph prince had 11 points while Clay Miller added 8. Joey Murphy tallied 7 points and Evan Trevino scored 6.Epiphany rallied in the second half to top the seventh grade Saints 40-32. SMS led 24-19 at the break but was outscored 21-8 over the final two periods.Cameron Dawson led SMS with 10 points and Seth Mehrkens added 7.The eighth grade Saints scored just two points in the first half and dropped a 28-15 decision in the finale. Tyler Monahan had 6 points for St. Mary’s.PJHS 8th graders fallPontiac fell behind early and was unable to rally in falling 54-27 to El Paso-Gridley in an eighth grade boys basketball contest Tuesday.EPG jumped out to a 13-7 lead and built the margin to 25-9 by halftime. It was a 41-19 game through three frames.Austin Long had 10 points and 9 rebounds for Pontiac. Zach Fellheimer threw in 6 points. Tony Krominga had 2 points and Zac Dittmer, Bryce Moore, Krutil Patel and Austin Phillips each chipped in 2 points.Odell takes two from SauneminSAUNEMIN — Odell was able to chalk up two victories in grade school boys basketball over host Saunemin Tuesday.The Rams scored a 28-20 win in the seventh grade game. Andrew Lee had 9 points for the Eagles and Tanner Walls scored 7.No scoring summary for Odell was provided.Saunemin led by five in the first half but the Rams came back to post a 45-39 victory in the eighth grade contest.Eric Zega led SGS with 18 points. Austin Nelson added 11 points and Eric Hiller scored 6 points.No scoring summary for Odell was provided.